Age of persuasion
Weekends in Alberta politics are usually pretty slow, so if you'll allow me this small digression...
As inspired by Straight Outta Edmonton's latest post, it's shows like this that inspire my love for the CBC. The Age of Persuasion is an half hour program that airs on Radio One every Saturday morning and discusses everything you ever wanted to know about advertising.
For reasons unknown to me, I have this fascination with the ways in which advertisers try to manipulate the public's emotions for the gains of private interests. Although the host of the show (Terry O'Reilly) is an ad-person himself - and therefore probably not as critical of the profession as I would like him to be - he is incredibly forthright. If you're skeptical, check out 23 three things I'd like to change about advertising. His conclusion to that show is great. The Age of Persuasion is apparently working on creating a podcast, but in the meantime you can listen to each episode via streaming audio on the show's site.
On a less positive note, it's men like this, that make me fear for the CBC's future.
That picture of Harper is amazing.
Posted by:Straight Outta Edmonton | March 16, 2008 at 11:03 PM
There's an unofficial Age of Persuasion Podcast. It just uses the mp3s posted on the CBC site and packages them together in a podcast.
Follow this link:
http://themainframe.ca/2008/03/05/age-of-persuasion-podcast/
And there's a link there for subscribing in iTunes.
Posted by:Miguel | April 08, 2008 at 12:16 PM